#mantodea

[bug-lovers-island]

Light trap lamp! The moths are paper, and the mantis is a plastic toy. The idea was suggested to me by a friend because I had this plain shade and nothing to use it for. More moths will be added in the future to fill the sides

[beausbugbiome]

“When Insects Rule the World” series by Bill Mayer

[herpsandbirds]

Red-and-yellow Slender Flower Mantis (Toxodera integrifolia), female, family Toxoderidae, Malaysia

Photograph by Chien C Lee

[dinoserious]

invertober day 24, giant asian mantis. 0_0

[crevicedwelling]

male mantises are such bimbos I saw this guy miss a bee, then very confidently take a bite of the goldenrod buds he caught instead

[creatureimages]

look at the absolute size of this archimantis!!!!!!!!

look at the mantis!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[creepincrawl]

More pics of my pet mantis Daffodil on my miniature, but now she's an adult!

:O that me!

This time she really, really wanted to just climb up high lol. Makes sense because she spends like 90% of her time upside down.

Ma'am, please, the door is not for climbing.

(look at her antennae moving!)

Oh my goodness I can't bring you anywhere Daffodil!! They have printed paper menus you don't have to climb up close to look!!!

I gave her a juicy cricket for her time! Everyone say thank you Daffodil!

:I :o

[jupiterswasphouse]

[VIDEO AND PHOTOS TAKEN: JULY 29TH, 2024 | Video and Image IDs: A video and three photos of a brown, green, and orange mantis on a human hand. In the video, it's cleaning off its legs and looking around curiously /End IDs.]

[ichneumoniid]

Stares at you menacingly

(Tenodera sinensis, 9/30/2024)

[celestial-games]

Dragon flower mantis, Toxodera integrifolia

A silly guy :)

[razehider]

shortly after meeting an adult Empusa pennata like i've always wanted to, i came across this baby one. it was roughly in the same area as the adult, so she could be its mom for all i know. either way this bodes well for my odds of seeing more in a few months

predictably it despised me and kept leaping away with impressive speed, but it was also pathetically easy to get it back on my hand repeatedly. this was another one of those that are hard to walk away from because i never got tired of looking at it (September 18th, 2024)

[sparreaux]

Today I met a tiny baby.

[lazchance]

hello my dears... praying mantis cleaning antennae today... gorgeous mantis i shot with yellow and red

i found this rather shy adult gressitt's mantis (Tropidomantis gressitti) mantises always being photogenic animals and here we have one cleaning itself

look at those claws covered in their numerous spines and dark green patches. beautiful

[herpsandbirds]

Thistle Mantis (Blepharopsis mendica), family Empusidae, found in parts of the Middle East and northern Africa

photograph by Richard Towell

[have-you-seen-this-animal]

Violin Mantis? They look so neat.

[crevicedwelling]

here’s an interesting female Chinese mantis I found hanging out in a porcelainberry patch. the yellow neck and green body is a very common color morph in males, but this is the first female I’ve seen who wasn’t a fully green or brown morph. she’s rather tiny for a T. sinensis too

she also had “heterochromia,” with one eye a bluer shade of green than the other (doubt anything about this term applies to a compound eye, but what else would you call it?)

I wonder if I’ll see her again in the few weeks she’s got left, certainly a very distinctive individual